What do you do at your organization?
July 4, 2022 @ 8:11 am
What are BPT members reading about process work? Have you read a book on any of the following topics during the course of 2021-2022? (Please check more than one.)
June 5, 2022 @ 8:25 am
Do the senior managers of your organization “get” business process?
April 27, 2022 @ 12:55 pm
How important is a business process architecture at your organization?
March 6, 2022 @ 7:09 pm
In January several readers suggested that they expected 2022 to result in a lot of new process projects. We decided to probe for more detail:
January 31, 2022 @ 9:21 am
- I'm a specialist at Six Sigma or Lean and work on process improvement from within that specialized perspective (15%, 19 Votes)
- I'm in IT and I work on identifying and implementing software that improves business processes (12%, 15 Votes)
- I am a business process architect and try to understand processes on an enterprise wide level (12%, 15 Votes)
- I am a business manager and consider process improvement as part of my overall job (23%, 29 Votes)
- I'm your basic process renewal practitioner. Whatever my actual title, I look for, and work to improve business processes at our organization. (22%, 27 Votes)
- I don't work at an organization. I'm an independent consultant. (16%, 19 Votes)
Total Voters: 124
What are BPT members reading about process work? Have you read a book on any of the following topics during the course of 2021-2022? (Please check more than one.)
- Book on Lean or Six Sigma initiatives. (16%, 5 Votes)
- Book on managing IT group involved in supporting a business process change. (6%, 2 Votes)
- Book on managing human performance of those involved in business processes. (6%, 2 Votes)
- Book on managing a process-focused organization (Value of process to the organization.) (3%, 1 Votes)
- Book on IT architecture (With some information on process analysis.) (10%, 3 Votes)
- Book on business process architecture (What it is. How to do it.) (16%, 5 Votes)
- A book on a technology or approach that you hope might improve the effectiveness or efficiency of the process you manage. (13%, 4 Votes)
- Advanced book on how to analyze and design business process changes. (13%, 4 Votes)
- Book on how to manage business process improvement (How to organize a BPM initiative or project.) (10%, 3 Votes)
- A basic book on business process improvement (What it is. How to do it.) (6%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 13
Do the senior managers of your organization “get” business process?
- No. Our senior managers don’t seem to know much about the business process perspective. Process improvement in our organization is largely confined to the departmental or the local work group level. (39%, 7 Votes)
- Maybe. Our senior managers don’t talk much about business processes, although they do support several process improvement initiatives. (50%, 9 Votes)
- Yes. Our senior managers talk about processes and support process improvement initiatives. (11%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 18
How important is a business process architecture at your organization?
- We have a process group and an up-to-date business process architecture that we constantly consult. (30%, 7 Votes)
- We have a business process architecture that is a few years old now. (26%, 6 Votes)
- We have an IT architecture, but not a real business process architecture. (9%, 2 Votes)
- We do a kind of architecture to help define processes for improvement. (22%, 5 Votes)
- We do not concern ourselves with business process architecture. (13%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 23
In January several readers suggested that they expected 2022 to result in a lot of new process projects. We decided to probe for more detail:
- Process work in 2022 will be new but not related directly to the pandemic. They will reflect new initiatives our organization is undertaking (70%, 7 Votes)
- Process work in 2022 will reflect infrastructure change and acquisitions or consolidations indirectly associated with problems of the last two years (10%, 1 Votes)
- New process work in 2022 will be related to the pandemic (e.g. new processes to accommodate changes introduced by the pandemic) (10%, 1 Votes)
- New process projects in 2022 will be a continuation of process projects started before the pandemic (10%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 10
